Rip Van Winkle, and Other SketchesUseful knowledge publishing Company, 1882 - 240 من الصفحات |
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... sleeping on its glassy bosom , and at last losing itself in the blue highlands . On the other side he looked down into a deep mountain glen , wild , lonely , and shagged , the bottom filled with fragments from the impending cliffs , and ...
... sleeping on its glassy bosom , and at last losing itself in the blue highlands . On the other side he looked down into a deep mountain glen , wild , lonely , and shagged , the bottom filled with fragments from the impending cliffs , and ...
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... sleep . On waking he found himself on the green knoll from whence he had first seen the old man of the glen . He rubbed his eyes - it was a bright sunny morning . The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes , and the eagle ...
... sleep . On waking he found himself on the green knoll from whence he had first seen the old man of the glen . He rubbed his eyes - it was a bright sunny morning . The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes , and the eagle ...
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... sleep is poisoned by melancholy dreams . ' dry sorrow drinks her blood , " until her enfeebled frame sinks under the slightest external injury . Look for her , after a little while , and you find friendship weeping over her un- timely ...
... sleep is poisoned by melancholy dreams . ' dry sorrow drinks her blood , " until her enfeebled frame sinks under the slightest external injury . Look for her , after a little while , and you find friendship weeping over her un- timely ...
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Washington Irving. She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps , And lovers around her are sighing ; But ... sleep , like a smile from the west , From her own loved island of sorrow ! THE ART OF BOOK - MAKING . " If that 48 ...
Washington Irving. She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps , And lovers around her are sighing ; But ... sleep , like a smile from the west , From her own loved island of sorrow ! THE ART OF BOOK - MAKING . " If that 48 ...
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... sleep with their fathers ; that is to say , with the authors who preceded them - and from whom they had stolen . While I was indulging in these rambling fancies I had leaned my head against a pile of reverend folios . Whether it was ...
... sleep with their fathers ; that is to say , with the authors who preceded them - and from whom they had stolen . While I was indulging in these rambling fancies I had leaned my head against a pile of reverend folios . Whether it was ...
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abbey ancient aunts Baltus Van Tassel Baron beautiful Boar's Head bosom breath Brom Bones buried burst castle chamber Charlecot church churchyard Dame Van Winkle dark delight distant door Dutch earth Eastcheap Falstaff fancied feelings flowers funeral gaze gentleman ghost goblin grave hand haunted hear heard heart hour Ichabod Ichabod Crane Jack Straw John Bull kind lady living looked Lucy Maid's Tragedy mansion melancholy ment mind moldering monuments mountain nature neighborhood neighboring never night once passed poet poor pride recollection Rip Van Winkle Robert Preston round scene seated seemed seen sepulcher sexton Shakespeare side silent sleep Sleepy Hollow solemn sorrow soul sound specter spirit steed stood story strange Stratford sweet tale tavern tender Thomas Lucy thought tion told tomb tree turn village voice Wat Tyler whole wild William Walworth Wurtzburg
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الصفحة 23 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
الصفحة 16 - Their visages, too, were peculiar; one had a large head, broad face, and small piggish eyes; the face of another seemed to consist entirely of nose, and was surmounted by a white sugar-loaf hat, set off with a little red cock's tail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colors. There was one who seemed to be the commander.
الصفحة 23 - Rip's heart died away at hearing of these sad changes in his home and friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world. Every answer puzzled him too, by treating of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war— congress— Stony Point— he had no courage to ask after any more friends, but cried out in despair, "Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle?" "Oh, Rip Van Winkle!" exclaimed two or three, "Oh, to be sure! that's Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against...
الصفحة 27 - Rip now resumed his old walks and habits ; he soon found many of his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time...
الصفحة 26 - He recollected Rip at once, and corroborated his story in the most satisfactory manner. He assured the company that it was a fact, handed down from his ancestor, the historian, that the Kaatskill mountains had always been haunted by strange beings. That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Halfmoon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and...
الصفحة 7 - When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of...
الصفحة 25 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
الصفحة 48 - ... SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND. SHE is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing ; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
الصفحة 22 - Alas! gentlemen," cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, " I am a poor quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal subject of the King, God bless him!" Here a general shout burst from the bystanders — "A tory! a tory! a spy! a refugee! hustle him ! away with him !" It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order ; and having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit, what he came there for, and whom he was seeking. The poor man...
الصفحة 12 - When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs, but when pleased, he would...